Is Benadryl ok?

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Hello all. I am a nurse in Arkansas and I am on probation for a year for testing positive for THC. I will begin my random drug screens this week and I'm clean and ready to just get this started and over with, or at least I thought I was. I've been reading some of the threads on here about recovery and I have seen a few about nurses testing positive for benadryl. Is this something I'm not supposed to use? I haven't seen anything about it in any of my paperwork. I have been notified to abstain from all alcohol, poppy seeds, and hemp products, but nothing about benadryl. I have been taking one ibuprofen pm every week night for years to help me fall asleep. If I'm not supposed to take it then I will stop but I'm concerned if I am tested on Monday will it show up positive from a pill I took on Friday? I am obviously anxious about all this but until now I was mainly just terrified that I would forget to check in or that I would lose my job for having to leave work in the middle of my shift to take drug tests. Please help. Thanks.

The situation what I have with missouri is even weirder, because I'm facing the legal as well as the nursing board. My drug court says that I can't have Benedryl but the BON says it's fine. Who knows half the time.

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